🇷🇺🇶🇦Russian FM Sergey Lavrov held talks with the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani during his visit to Doha.

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🔍46 people were killed in a military plane crash in Sudan, the Associated Press reports.

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🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during his visit to Moscow.

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🔊LIVE NOW: Russian FM Sergey Lavrov holds presser after talks with the Emir of Qatar

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US draws the line: No troop commitments for Ukraine

The Ukraine peace plan proposed by President Donald Trump does not include any commitments to send US forces to the region or offer military assistance in the event of renewed fighting, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal, citing a White House representative.

During recent talks with Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron urged the US to back potential deployments of French and UK forces to Ukraine if a peace settlement is reached.

While Macron left Washington believing he had secured an understanding with Trump, a White House official clarified that the proposed peace deal offers no guarantees of US military involvement.

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❗️Russian troops liberated the settlements of Orlovka and Pogrebki in Russia's Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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❗️Russian forces struck military infrastructure and drone storage facilities in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

▪️Ukraine lost up to 200 servicemen in the Russian Zapad Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 325 troops in the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Russian aviation shot down five Hammer guided bombs, 19 Vampire shells and 185 Ukrainian drones.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 185 militants in the Russian Yug Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 130 soldiers and three warehouses in the areas of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr and Sever.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 175 troops in the Russian Vostok Battlegroup's combat zone.

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🇷🇺 Russia is not considering any options for the deployment of European peacekeepers in Ukraine, and no one has asked Moscow about it, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov stated.

📍More statements on the Ukraine conflict:

🟠Russia is not blocking talks on Ukraine

🟠Lavrov called the EU stance on the Ukraine issue 'failed'

🟠Europe’s desire to deploy peacekeepers in Ukraine is aimed at weaponizing Kiev again

📍Statements on Middle East tensions:

🟠Russia will seek the lifting of sanctions against Syria without any conditions

🟠Syria’s leadership is interested in ensuring that efforts to normalize the situation in the country proceed without geopolitical interference

🟠Resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries in the region instead of implementing a two-state solution will only set a time bomb

🟠Israel’s presence in southern Lebanon and southern Syria requires constructive solutions that do not violate the security of any party

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Scholz set to leave successor HUGE economic mess

Germany's consumer sentiment index, measured by market research giant GfK, has hit a 13-MONTH LOW, signaling trouble ahead for the country’s next government. The index dropped to -24.7 points in February from -22.6 in January, defying expectations of a -21.4 showing.

What does the index signify?

1️⃣The GfK index gauges consumer attitudes on the economy, household finances, and major purchases, with scores below zero indicating a decline in consumption.

2️⃣The latest drop reflects rising prices, political uncertainty, and cautious spending as Germans brace for more factory closures and job cuts.

3️⃣Consumer confidence in Germany has been underwater since 2019, battered by the pandemic, then soaring energy costs, then the fallout from the proxy conflict with Russia, previously the country's main resource provider.

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📹Chinese drones streamline office operations

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💬 Trump’s defense budget proposal to Russia & China aims to give US LOPSIDED MILITARY EDGE – ex-US marine

Washington hopes to drag Moscow and Beijing into “deceptive” 50% military spending cuts, staking on their desire to “avoid appearing disinterested in peace overtures by the US,” geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic told Sputnik.

1️⃣The proposal is a ruse by Donald Trump aimed at rectifying the “disparity between the bloated US military budget” and the “more efficient ones of Moscow and Beijing”

2️⃣A genuine US agreement would not be based on a percentage cut, but “an equal reduction in actual capabilities”

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